pmlnr

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by pmlnr 8d ago
Microblogging. That's the original term.
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by pmlnr 8d ago
There wasn't anyone there. I made a site, I put it out there, because as a 14 year old, it was fantastic I could make completely mine and nobody else's at all. That was the drive.
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by pmlnr 9d ago
> The problem is no one ever built one that works for normal people. https://getpublii.com/
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by pmlnr 9d ago
> True, but rooting the device de-facto means breaking the trust-chain of the OS. Like every single Microsoft laptop out there does so? Think a bit harder before sentences like this, please.
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by pmlnr 9d ago
> Rooted devices make devices unpredictable. you/we/me not having root while, for example, Google Play Services does on invalidates everything you said.
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by pmlnr 9d ago
> If you root or jailbreak your devices, you've, by their very nature, broken their security. Wow. Please stop spreading things like this. Not having root means not owning a device you paid for and have in your home.
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by pmlnr 9d ago
"First step" Nobody said it's enough, but it's a start.
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by pmlnr 9d ago
Here's an idea: as a first step, simplify everything, and make sure you're aware how your stack works, and what it imports. As an example: WordPress is a horrible thing, but the core has been through so much, that it's supris
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by pmlnr 10d ago
> What are incentives for the average person? Their logic seems straightforward: they want to be where their friends are at This is some sort of absolute, fundamental difference between the early web and now, at least how I experienced i
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by pmlnr 11d ago
For starts, there's no such thing as Twitter any more, and hasn't been, for years.
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by pmlnr 15d ago
https://petermolnar.net/article/asn-blocking-freebsd-pf-ngin... It's not the most sophisticated thing.
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by pmlnr 16d ago
Fail2ban becomes a serious bottleneck at significant traffic. I've replaced it with a shell script and direct pf commands that run every few minutes.
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by pmlnr 18d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts
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by pmlnr 18d ago
So did Edgar Allan Poe. As a non-native speaker, it's, to say the least, a challenging read.
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by pmlnr 18d ago
They're pathetically pretechnological or brilliantly post-technological. - Stargate Atlantis ep. 14: Sanctuary
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by pmlnr 18d ago
> I don't like spending too much time in nature, I get hot and sweaty and itchy and bothered by bugs To me, it sounds like you haven't been in nature at enough places to find the one that talks and belongs to you. Travel more.
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by pmlnr 21d ago
> The next session opens with a <past_decisions> block so the Executive remembers what it recommended last month. This is morbidly unrealistic.
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by pmlnr 1mo ago
Github activity from 12 years ago should be an indicator: https://github.com/tgodier?tab=overview&from=2014-12-01&to=2...
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by pmlnr 2mo ago
Nothing. People not reading back on history is still very much a thing.
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by pmlnr 3mo ago
Claude Eulogy - the dreadful, dreary pondering that inescapably descends on all under heaven.
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by pmlnr 5mo ago
The same social media that stores everything down to your keystrokes ? Sure, the problem is needing a gov ID, sure.
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by pmlnr 5mo ago
Nginx has per server, per path limiting options.
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by pmlnr 5mo ago
Because the internet became a shithole.
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by pmlnr 5mo ago
A phone, no. An internet connected device is another question. One can always get a dumbphone without this.
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by pmlnr 6mo ago
Been there recently. Rate limit on nginx and anti-syn flood on pf solved it.
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by pmlnr 8mo ago
> Can I install my banking apps? Choose a bank with viable web banking. > Is there a Google pay equivalent? It's called a debit/credit card.
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by pmlnr 9mo ago
XMPP can do everything you listed at a fraction of the resources. It'll also need stub/turn, like everything else for video and voice, but it works.
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by pmlnr 9mo ago
And it's the best widely available, accessible, battle hardened, omnipresent messasing system.
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by pmlnr 9mo ago
Email itself is federated. Sort of the original federated messaging.
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by pmlnr 9mo ago
Web 2.0 slop, das good shit.

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